Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-21

come any tIOuDlS.
In his interview in the Sioux Falls |
Press Governor Church asserts that
the aggregate OF appropriations made
by the late legislature and the governor
has been much exaggerated and that
the appropriations at the session just
closed are $500 900 less than the appro.
priations made by the legislature of two
years ago. He places the appropriation
aggregate OF two years ago at 100000
and from this presentation of figures
fixes the appropriations by the late
legislature at $500,000. It is evident
that the governor Is very much mistaken.
He says the Misrepresentation relative to
excessive appropriations arises from the
suppositlon that the per diem and mile
age of legislature members and the ex-
penses of the legislative session are paid
from the territorial treasury, whereas
these expenses are paid by the national
government. 1t seems strange that o
governor who has been giving his undi-
vided attention to legislative matters
for month past should base correction
of an alleged Misrepresentation upon SO
intangible theory as this. Every
person with sufficient intelligence to
write or talk. about territorial affairs
knows Just what the general government
does in the way OF paying legisla-
tive expenses and knows further that
every dollar expended outside this gen.
eral government appropriation is used
under violation of law OF congress.
Tho mathematieal calculations OF those
who have inspected the bills passed
during the late legislative session place
the appropriations of that period at ST.
100000, which Is $780, 900 in excess OF
the estimate put forth by the governor.
That this wide difference between the
executive and the mathematicians can-
not be accounted for In the manner set
forth in this interview is shown by the
fact that the general government appro-
priation for legislative purposes in Da-
kota was only $42, 900.
r. W. Wheelook, editor Of the Nit.
chell Republican, has been at Bismarck
since the session closed going over the
work of the legislature, task which he
is competent to perform as he was the
| chief clerk of former secretary of the
territory and familiar with the details
| of legislative work. MIR. Wheelock
writes his paper as follows, under date
OF March 10th:
| a further review of the work OF the
recent legislative assembly oonvInees me
that congress will have to be appealed to
inside Of twelve months to undo much OF
Tits work, ii the credit Of the
territory is to be maintained. without
adding to the already large burdens
which the tax payers are carrying. The
aggregate OF appropriations Of all sorts
is over 81, 100000, a fact which I think
very few of the members realized, as ir
the closing hours they good nsturedIy
do / believe that Gov. Church had ans
that crowded in on him during the pasi
two days, or he would have done more
to sustain the reputation which he start
ed out to make as an economizer.
| Mr.. Wheelock goes on to particular
| ize and his remarks in this connectio,
are SO valuable to the public that ".
iquote them entire. He says:
| Let us look at some of the measures
for laying pipe lines from the treasnr,
to every part OF the territory.
There are the bills for the mainten.
J ance and Improvement OF the territoria
institutions--in almost every instance
twice or three times as large as the &C
tual needs of the institutions demand
The Yankton asylum and the Siou.
Falls penjtentiary are the only one
j. whose appropriations are not wholly II
! excess of their requirements, while th
, Plankinton reform school, conceded tw
years ago to be necessity, starts on
with comparatively modest sum. Blu
. take the jamestown asylum, $293, 90
against $58, 900 IN 1886; Bismarck peni
teatiary, $73,220 against $36.42S tw
years ago-a sum sufficient, ss Governo
: Pierce remarked to me, to board its in
+ mates during the next two years at th
a Ryan hotel IN st. Paul; Brookings col
le9e $4l,oSD against pSO,OUu IN 1856
school OF mines, $40 900 against $500
= Spearfish normal school, S21, 800 againi
: $5,0 900; and SO on the end Of the List.
oil Then there are bills: To create th
: Office of public examiners, one in eac
half OF the territory at a salary OF So
l. 500 each per year, with incidental 81
y penses; to create the Office OF yeterinai
Q surgeon into which Huron horse dot
: tor was promptly placed; to pay II
:. travelling expenses Of the territori
y judges; to pay lot Of CLAIMS made |
n parties who had done work for the te
= ritory without authority, and whit
"a claims should have been outlawed yea
since; to pay deficiency caused by nj
warranted expenditures by the board
railroad commissioners; to pay Il
r deficiency arising from the Fargo el
"a campp1ent; to pay u. 81. Wagner
!, lamps placed in the capitol, entire
without authority, two years ago, sever
as OF which exploded at the time al
e. nearly burned the old shack dow
n to give the governor $1,000
). clerk hire and So on every notarial COZ
= mission-making the cost Of the latt
% with seal s., instead Of $6 AZ heretofo,
r. to provide for ipsurinQ pubIio hniIdin,